x402 Has Processed 138M+ #AI Agents 🤖# Payments in 16 Months 📊 87% of x402 payments are worth less than $0.10, and the most common payment size is just 1-10 cents. That sounds tiny, but it is exactly the kind of transaction traditional card rails weren't designed for 💡 x402 launched in May 2025 as an open payment standard that lets software pay directly for online services using stablecoins like $USDC . Instead of creating an account or entering card details, an AI agent can receive a payment request, pay it and continue its task automatically. 📌 Chainalysis looked at roughly 16 months of activity through September 2026 and found more than 138M transactions on Base. SO, what are agents paying for? → AI model calls → data and search APIs → code and security analysis → other software and agent tools There is another number I like: the median wallet used for its first x402 payment went from 73 days old in late 2025 - to just 18 minutes in Q3 2026. In other words, more wallets now appear to be created, funded and put to work almost immediately 🔎 For now, most of these payments are tiny. But that may be the point: if AI agents are going to buy thousands of small services on their own, paying a few cents at a time starts to make much more sense... #Macro Insights# #X402